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SAPINDACEJE. 
leaves, flowers in trifid umbels, and peduncles with a pair of spiral 
tendrils at the top. Distrib. Bound the world in the tropics. 
Species 15. 
Capsule 1-1£ inch broad and long 1. C. Halicacabum. 
Capsule \ inch broad and long 2. C. microcarptjm. 
1. C. Halicacabum, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 601. A wide-climbing 
annual, with slender groved stems, at first finely downy. Leaves long- 
petioled, 2-3-ternate, membranous ; first divisions long-stalked ; ulti- 
mate rhomboid, acute, deeply pinnatifid. Flowers in axillary long- 
peduncled trifid umbels, with a pair of spiral tendrils at the top of the 
peduncle. Petals whitish, in. long ; largest pair of sepals as long as 
the petals. Capsules stalked, 1-1| in. broad and long, finely pilose. 
Bot. Mag . t. 1049. C. Corindum, Bojer , Sort. Maur. 55. 
Mauritius, common, especially in cultivated ground. Round the world in 
tropics. Pokepoke. Bonnet de Pretre. 
2. C. microcarpum, H.B.K. ; DC. Prod. i. 601. Scarcely more than 
a variety of C. Halicacabum , with which it agrees precisely in habit, 
leaves and flower, differing only in the size of its capsule, which is not 
more than half an iuch broad and long. 
Seychelles, Perville ! Horne ! Rodriguez, abundant, Dr. Balfour ! Round the 
world in tropics. No doubt will be found also in Mauritius if looked for. 
2. SCHMIDELIA, Linn. 
Flowers irregular, polygamous Sepals 4, round, obtuse, convex, 
much imbricated. Petals 4, lingulate, hairy on the face. Disk uni- 
lateral, lobed. Stamens 8, eccentric ; filaments subulate ; anthers round, 
minute. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled ; ovules solitary ; style subulate, with 
two deep falcate branches. Fruit globose, rather fleshy, indehiseent, 
1-celled by abortion. — Erect shrubs or trees, with alternate exstipu- 
late 1-3-foliolate leaves and minute flowers in simple or panicled 
racemes. Distrib. Species 80. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. Allophy- 
lus, Linn., an older name for the genus, is used by Hiern in Flora 
Indica. 
Leaves trifoliate 1 . S. racemosa. 
Leaves simple 2. S. monophylla. 
1. S. racemosa. Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 610. An erect shrub or small 
tree. Petioles 1-1 \ in. long ; leaflets 3, glabrous, subcoriaceous, ob- 
long, penninerved, acute, 2-3 in. long, obscurely repand, the central one 
short-petioled, deltoid at the base, the side ones oblique, nearly sessile. 
Bacemes short-peduncled, mostly simple, shorter than the leaves. 
